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Liquid Landscape

A playful dialogue between people and nature.

Liquid Landscape

Liquid Landscape

In Italy, the contemporary open-air museum Arte Sella premiered the new artwork LIQUID LANDSCAPE. Visitors experience an unexpected fluid movement when stepping on this surreal landscape of grass.

LIQUID LANDSCAPE creates a playful dialogue between people and nature, revealing our symbiotic relationship with the environment.

What may at first seem like a small dune or a small Dutch dike, transforms into a liquid landscape the moment you set foot onto it. Walking onto the 50m2 artwork, the surface begins to move, and gentle ripples occur in the grass. A carefully designed collage of local soil and water is buried in the Italian ground and covered with a custom-made flexible container of nutrients and grass. As more visitors step onto the artwork, the ripples become more vibrant, symbolising our ecological footprint.

LIQUID LANDSCAPE is a permanent public artwork commissioned by the contemporary open-air museum Arte Sella in Italy. Roosegaarde was asked to create something with a challenging framework: no use of electricity, no use of artificial light, low maintenance, robust for decades, yet interactive to people.

"LIQUID LANDSCAPE is radical new sculpture thinking; as an anti-sculpture it is almost invisible in which the visitor is invited to become the artwork." - Emanuele Montibeller, art curator Arte Sella. By inviting visitors to interact and play, LIQUID LANDSCAPE challenges conventional expectations of sculpture, and our perspective of materiality with a solid transforming into liquid.

Against the background of the solid Alpine mountain surrounded by nature and the seasons, the artwork symbolises the change in our climate. We think our world is static, but it is not; it is continuously changing. LIQUID LANDSCAPE playfully inspires visitors to re-appreciate their relationship with nature and its impact on Earth as a call to action.

规格:

2021, grass, soil, water and other media. LIQUID LANDSCAPE is permanently exhibited in Italy at Arte Sella, 38051 Borgo Valsugana, Trentino.

With special thanks to our commissioner Arte Sella, the Embassy of the Netherlands, the consulate-general of the Netherlands in Italy, the team of Studio Roosegaarde with all suppliers and technical consultants, and with all respect to artist Zoro Feigl who developed a similar work of art called Floating Fields in 2013, based on the same phenomenon whereby water accumulates in nature under a lawn.

Movie directed by Daan Roosegaarde with Media.Monks and dancers Ilaria Marcolin and Giacomo Citton of Dancing Museums. Photography by Roberto Conte.

客户:

Arte Sella, Italy

Movie of Liquid Landscape
Movie of Liquid Landscape
Watch our modern fairytale movie now of LIQUID LANDSCAPE with dancers Ilaria Marcolin and Giacomo Citton of Dancing Museums, directed by Daan Roosegaarde.
Premiere of Liquid Landscape
Premiere of Liquid Landscape
LIQUID LANDSCAPE premieres at Arte Sella in Italy to create a playful dialogue between people and nature when stepping on this surreal landscape of grass.
Surreal landscape of grass creates a playful dialogue
Surreal landscape of grass creates a playful dialogue
The contemporary open air museum Arte Sella in Italy premieres LIQUID LANDSCAPE. Visitors experience an unexpected fluid movement when stepping on the artwork, revealing our symbiotic relationship with the environment.